Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral

Born: September 12, 1924
Died: January 20, 1973
in Bafatá, Guinea Bissau
Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, pan-africanist, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.

Movies for Amílcar Cabral...

Concerning Violence
Title: Concerning Violence
Character: Self - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage)
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
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Sans Soleil
Title: Sans Soleil
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
Title: The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.